Siteweave – set up by business partners and friends John Studd and John Burchett – has been growing slowly but steadily since it first registered as a business in 1999.

From its early beginnings of contacting friends, neighbours and acquaintances who may want a website, the Hayling Avenue-based two-man team now has more than 70 clients ranging from sole traders to business with an annual turnover of £10m.

And now it has decided to test its mettle by entering in the Small Business category.

Among people the company has done work for has been Portsmouth man Chris Haines, pictured above, who gained money for his new business Safe-T-Light via the BBC show Dragons Den.

The work the two Johns carried out was to produce a website that would allow people to buy his safety light devices online.

Siteweave initially began by designing bespoke websites – unique sites that are built to the client’s specification.

But in the past year it has created the ‘Send and Go’ concept for smaller organisations that can’t afford the costs of a unique site.

This allows clients to choose colour schemes, logos and tag lines, then supply the content – text and images – in electronic form.

Some of these have achieved top Google billing – including a site offering accommodation aboard boats moored in Wootton Creek on the Isle of Wight.

Mr Burchett said: ‘I think our strength is looking after the customers we’ve got already.

‘We aren’t just looking for new business and getting hugely bigger all the time, we are looking to provide a good service that’s long lasting and is a long lasting relationship.

‘This doesn’t necessarily put us in the category of being a go-getting business – a business model I understand – and in some ways we aren’t that business.

‘We are a steady business and we aren’t looking to be millionaires. We are looking to provide a service, though of course we are also looking to grow turnover - if you aren’t doing that as a business then you aren’t looking after your business.’

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